Celebrity Accounts
In 2008, mixi began "Celebrity Accounts" in which celebrities who are on the social networking site are allowed to surpass the 1000-friend limit and potentially have an unlimited number of followers.
Many popular figures have "Celebrity Accounts" such as actress, model, singer Anna Tsuchiya, producer and rapper Shing02, Akihabara idol Haruko Momoi and countless others including fictional character Arsène Lupin III from the series of the same name. Mixi maintained an official list of these accounts.
In 2011, mixi announced that it would end "Celebrity Accounts" and replace the function with a new service, "mixi page".
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